This is a 64bit processor running in a 32bit mode that's as fast as a true 32bit processor at 1/2 the clock speed. When released it will be able to run existing 32bit apps at the same speed as the highest line of Intel processors while adding 64bit support. Thats where the true performance will shine.
Newspapers are believed do to credibility and for the most part unbiased reporting. Credibility can be established by reporting accurately, truthfully, and by keeping current with the events. Slashdot has a bit of sensationalism along with opinnions and sometimes unreliable sources that prevent me from believing everything I read on it. If a person can establish themselves as reliable source of information then I believe a blog can be true journalism.
If you must know, I'm a Broadband supervisor at Charter Comm.
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Basic cable is prevented from being stolen by a device called a "trap". Trapping basically blocks the RF on the line to prevent it from traveling to a house. Most cable these days are based on addressable or digital services but the FCC still requires the basic channels (NBC,CBS,FOX,etc) to be trapped and analog. In order for the modem to work in needs RF in the range of -15db to +15db on the forward signal and reverse signals of 35db to 55db with a signal to noise of 30db or more. If you trap off a house then your not going to get cable service period (unless you know how to safely remove it from the drop).
Now what prevents you from just purchasing a cable modem and hooking it up and having it work is a method of authentication known as provisioning which enables the modem or cabledevice with that Mac id to work on the system in which case the modem is delivered a CM file that governs the modem to work at a specific speed. If you can fool the modem to downloading the CM file from some other source then you can change the speed it runs at. But don't be stupid and do this as bandwidth graphs are well monitored and you can bet that when someone is pulling 30mbit your cable network engineer is gonna notice the nice huge spike compared to everyone else on the node. But to make this short and sweet, its pretty hard to find out and prevent someone from stealing basic cable, which is why most cable companies charge a cable access fee around $10.00 if you don't have any cable service besides a modem.
The article author sorta makes me feel like I'm supposed to feel bad that my old harddrive ends up in China. Now, I don't have any experience with this but I'm guessing that China is purchasing this junk or is atleast allowing the US to ship it to them for a chunk of money. I don't think that we're flying it over Beijing and dropping it by the plane load, could be wrong but I'd think we'd have a few more problems with China if this was the case. If anyone other country out there wanted to house the US's toxic waste I'm not gonna feel sorry for them because their nation is ran by idiots. My $0.02.
I never thought they could compete effectively in the competitive x86 market. But here's where they really could, instead of trying to emulate other peoples software, build an OS tweaked to that processor so tightly that the lack of general speed is negated. Proprietary systems have the potential to be very very fast, because their developers know all bits and pieces of that specific system. For example console systems (and I use this as my example because I've done gameboy and gameboy color programming) which are in general very much slower than a comperable pc but because the system is designed for a specific purpose and the developers are well versed in all the ways to squeeze a couple extra juice of it they are hard to compete with in terms on games. Transmeta should imho, focus completely on embedded systems that use their own OS and software to really shine.
and in charge of cash register maintence at a grocery store and our registers where P3-500s with 128 megs of ram running on DOS and some emulator software that let it connect into the archaic IBM register mini-computer. The funniest thing is that each register was atleast 5x more powerful than the IBM.
A trend that I've noticed is that everything is multiplayer now. Great games are the ones that everything is designed and scripted out, random attacks, plots, and sucky players don't make a game great, they offer diversity and may make it interesting but a true game is one that plays like a book, unfolding a plot in front of you. I haven't seen any good multiplayer games do this yet.
Does it really shock anyone? It's like everyone expects them to get along? When was the last time you saw two competiting grocery stores run newspaper ads supporting each other. It's just the way the US business world works, you make your money at the expense of others. I'm not a Microsoft fan but jeez it's not like this sort of stuff doesn't happen in every other corporation. Bad mouthing the competition and saying how great your company is, is a tatic to try and get employees motivated, whether it works or not is questionable but the fact that Microsoft bad mouths a competing OS, or tries to force companies to use its software shouldn't surprise anyone.
Couldn't you just setup an alias in the Windows host file that would do the exact same thing. Christ, for 3 minutes you could have an application that could do this.
I purchased a HP Xf145 notebook from Sam's Club about 1 month ago, for the price it was a great machine, 1ghz mobile amd, 20 gig hd, 512Megs of ram for $1200. Only problem is that it locked up randomly, and frequently. HP refused to acknowledge that there was a problem and I ended up returning it to Sam's Club for a full return. (15 day full return). I ended up purchasing a Toshiba Sattelite 5005-S507 that I can't be happier with. It cost me a bit more (~$1600, I bought it refurbished) and it features the Geforce4 chipset, 1.1 ghz true p3, 512 megs ram, 40 gig hd, firewire, 8x/4x/cdrw/dvd combo drive and many other features. Even though it has a full desktop processor in it I have yet to have a lockup on it and it's as stable as anything I've ever ran.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., and DALLAS (April 16, 2002) -- Ditech Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DITC) and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced that TI has acquired Ditech's Telinnovation echo-cancellation software unit for a purchase price of $26.8 million. As a result of the acquisition, TI will provide customers with complete hardware and software carrier-class platforms that combine its voice-optimized digital signal processors (DSPs) and Telogy Software(TM) products with the industry's most widely used echo-cancellation technology. As part of the agreement, Ditech secures a license to implement the Telinnovation software on its echo cancellation systems, including enhancements made by TI to the echo cancellation algorithms. The agreement also calls for joint marketing and sales efforts.
"TI is committed to providing our broadband voice-over packet, or VoP, customers with the silicon and software they need to win in this fast-growing market," said Bill Simmelink, general manager of TI's VoP Business Unit. "By combining our silicon and software platforms with Ditech's echo-cancellation software and expertise, we will be able to provide our customers with complete, high-performance carrier-class VoP solutions."
"This transaction and license agreement with TI reflects a strategic decision by Ditech to bolster and focus all of our echo-cancellation resources to win in the echo cancellation systems business, where historically Ditech has generated the vast majority of its revenues and profits," said Tim Montgomery, Ditech's president, and CEO. "With this transaction and licensing agreement with TI, we maintain the echo-cancellation software component of our product advantage and increase the funds available to develop new systems products."
Ditech's high-capacity echo-canceller software is recognized as the industry benchmark for DSP-based voice enhancement and echo cancellation. It is regularly specified as a required component of new equipment purchased by major telecommunications carriers transitioning to wireless and packet-switched architectures. Echo-cancellation software algorithms are embedded in programmable DSPs to eliminate the echo effect caused by signal reflections of the speaker's voice as it crosses a variety of voice transmission systems.
Dr. Charles Davis, Ditech's chief technology officer and one of the world's foremost experts in the field, will join TI and continue to lead the echo-cancellation software team. Prior to joining Ditech, Dr. Davis led Telinnovation Service Corporation, which Ditech acquired in February 2000. The Telinnovation team began providing echo-cancellation software in 1983 and has years of experience working with various TI DSP platforms.
The acquired unit will become part of the Broadband Communications Group within TI's semiconductor business, reporting to Mr. Simmelink. The echo-cancellation team will remain in Silicon Valley, moving into an existing TI facility in San Jose.
Conference Call Ditech will host a conference call at 4:20 Eastern Time/1:20 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, April 16 to discuss this announcement. Ditech President Tim Montgomery and Ditech CFO Bill Tamblyn will lead the discussion. Any member of the public can listen to the conference call by calling the following number: (706) 634-5581. The conference call will also be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed by going to the Investors section of the Ditech web site: http://www.ditechcom.com. A replay of the conference call will be available via Ditech's web site or by calling the Encore replay number at (706) 645-9291. The conference ID is 3870574. The replay of this call will be available two hours after the call is completed, until 5 PM ET on April 23rd.
Texas Instruments Broadband Solutions For OEMs developing broadband communications solutions, TI's advanced signal processing-based silicon and software platforms deliver the optimal performance, lower power consumption, and system-level integration required to rapidly deploy differentiated next-generation products for cable modems, digital subscriber line (xDSL) modems, integrated access devices (IADs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateways, carrier infrastructure, and home and office wireless networking. See www.ti.com/sc/broadband.
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About Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com.
About Ditech Communications Corporation Ditech Communications Corporation is a global telecommunications equipment supplier for voice and optical networks. Ditech's voice products are high-capacity echo cancellers that utilize advanced software and digital signal processor (DSP) technology. This unique combination of software and hardware allows Ditech to deliver Voice Quality of Service (VQoS(TM)), a robust and cost-effective solution for voice enhancement (including noise reduction) and echo cancellation. Ditech also develops and markets optical subsystems and systems communications products. Ditech's optical subsystem products include optical amplifiers, transponders and network management products that enable service providers to cost-effectively expand and extend the reach of fiber optic networks. Ditech (DITC) is listed on the Nasdaq National Market and is headquartered in Mountain View, California (web site: http://www.ditechcom.com). Ditech is also developing and marketing its Titanium optical transport system product through its subsidiary, Altamar Networks (http://www.altamar.com).
Forward-Looking Statements Statements contained in this press release regarding the transaction between Ditech and TI and other statements of their respective managements' beliefs, goals and expectations may be considered "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. Those risks and uncertainties include the risk that Ditech and TI will not realize the benefits they expect under the joint marketing agreement, that TI will not successfully integrate the Telinnovation operation into its business, and that if there is a breach of a representation or warranty of Ditech in the transaction documents then Ditech may have liability to TI. Each company's statements herein are based on its current expectations. Ditech and TI each disclaim any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this press release.
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As long as they cite the source of the article as someone else's I would think this should be perfectly legal. It's the same as writing a research paper and then giving a direct page number in the works cited page from the magazine you read it from.
Well seeing as how I work for Charter Communications in the high speed data department and assuming your rates are comporable to what we charge in Wisconsin, then your paying $30 a month for a 256kbps/128kbps line. Where as lines that offer 1.5mbit/128kbps run $49.95. I personally don't really consider 256kbps a broadband connection, ISDN could pull close to if I remember correctly. However, Wisconsin is not the mecca of the tech world so perhaps your getting a better deal than what we offer here.
We implement cable service to our customers that are not wired to directly to our plant via Microwave signals carried from the nearest headend unit beamed to a small Dish Network style dish. We are able to support all the digital services as well as our advanced services like cable internet. These systems work fairly well however weather does play a fairly large roll in the reception, snow being the worst. However, it is much more cost efficient that running fiber optic cable through rural communities that in some cases don't even have basic copper wire laid. We estimate that in order to run a line 1 mile it's about $20,000.
In order for them to be succesful they need to have time warner drop roadrunner and make it AOL high speed access. The simple fact that its possible to have time warner roadrunner without AOL reduces the value of AOL-TimeWarner. Granted, this would make some of RoadRunner's users unhappy, but if they charged a comperable rate to what RoadRunner is right now I would assume the vast majority (power users excluded) wouldn't care. And for those that hate AOL they could up the price of basic roadrunner service and give a faster connection without AOL. I work for a competitor of RoadRunner (although I live in RoadRunner subscriber area) and I personally recieve about 5-10 phone calls a day about people wanting our service so that they can use it in conjunction with AOL.
Is how useful a powerful, upgradable pc's actually are. Toss a decent video capture board in it, and some software and you got a TiVO. Toss a 802.11b wireless pci nic in and you got yourself a small little file server you can hide in your closet. Use it as a Lan Party computer. A car based mp3/gps system, etc. There is a ton of possibilites when you can shrink down the size of a normal computer into a small attractive case that you don't mind have sitting next to a tv or can stash away under something.
Passwords sure as hell don't stop intentional disclosure of information, being around other people helps to though. You don't think companies would pay serious money for user habits, addresses, and phone numbers so that they can target their marketing? Got news for you, they do and disclosure of confidential material does happen. It could happen more in an uncontrolled enviroment.
While this would probably work, I know at my job we put a high price on the security of our information. (I.E. You can bring a personal notebook with you, but if you hook it up to the internal network you'll have the IT department on your ass.) If this involves customer accounts I would be very concerned that someone would be devulging personal information to outside sources as there is no way to truley monitor activity like this without a supervisor occasionally walking through, or other employees around to report unusual behavior. And what about those friendly children that might be more than happy to go play with Mom or Dad's company notebook and lose my resevations or payments. I'd feel better as a consumer knowing that my account was handled in an office enviroment rather than while the customer service rep is on the can.
is if it comes with a modification to allow all those consoles to be viewed via a computer monitor or even better if you could fit a flexATX or one of those micro mainboards and put in a card with a video in line so you can play multiple games in a window via an overlay.
Children have the most curiosity, and the littlest fear. They will try things that people who have experienced negative results previously may not. For example: my 2 year old son can play Halo better than I can, not because I'm bad at video games but because I cannot adapt to the controls and controller the way he can. I'm still stuck in the quake mouse + keyboard point of mind.
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This is a 64bit processor running in a 32bit mode that's as fast as a true 32bit processor at 1/2 the clock speed. When released it will be able to run existing 32bit apps at the same speed as the highest line of Intel processors while adding 64bit support. Thats where the true performance will shine.
Newspapers are believed do to credibility and for the most part unbiased reporting. Credibility can be established by reporting accurately, truthfully, and by keeping current with the events. Slashdot has a bit of sensationalism along with opinnions and sometimes unreliable sources that prevent me from believing everything I read on it. If a person can establish themselves as reliable source of information then I believe a blog can be true journalism.
If you must know, I'm a Broadband supervisor at Charter Comm.
Basic cable is prevented from being stolen by a device called a "trap". Trapping basically blocks the RF on the line to prevent it from traveling to a house. Most cable these days are based on addressable or digital services but the FCC still requires the basic channels (NBC,CBS,FOX,etc) to be trapped and analog. In order for the modem to work in needs RF in the range of -15db to +15db on the forward signal and reverse signals of 35db to 55db with a signal to noise of 30db or more. If you trap off a house then your not going to get cable service period (unless you know how to safely remove it from the drop). Now what prevents you from just purchasing a cable modem and hooking it up and having it work is a method of authentication known as provisioning which enables the modem or cabledevice with that Mac id to work on the system in which case the modem is delivered a CM file that governs the modem to work at a specific speed. If you can fool the modem to downloading the CM file from some other source then you can change the speed it runs at. But don't be stupid and do this as bandwidth graphs are well monitored and you can bet that when someone is pulling 30mbit your cable network engineer is gonna notice the nice huge spike compared to everyone else on the node. But to make this short and sweet, its pretty hard to find out and prevent someone from stealing basic cable, which is why most cable companies charge a cable access fee around $10.00 if you don't have any cable service besides a modem.
That Evo should really be pronounced Evil.
sucky sucky 5 dolla? me love you long time.
The article author sorta makes me feel like I'm supposed to feel bad that my old harddrive ends up in China. Now, I don't have any experience with this but I'm guessing that China is purchasing this junk or is atleast allowing the US to ship it to them for a chunk of money. I don't think that we're flying it over Beijing and dropping it by the plane load, could be wrong but I'd think we'd have a few more problems with China if this was the case. If anyone other country out there wanted to house the US's toxic waste I'm not gonna feel sorry for them because their nation is ran by idiots. My $0.02.
I never thought they could compete effectively in the competitive x86 market. But here's where they really could, instead of trying to emulate other peoples software, build an OS tweaked to that processor so tightly that the lack of general speed is negated. Proprietary systems have the potential to be very very fast, because their developers know all bits and pieces of that specific system. For example console systems (and I use this as my example because I've done gameboy and gameboy color programming) which are in general very much slower than a comperable pc but because the system is designed for a specific purpose and the developers are well versed in all the ways to squeeze a couple extra juice of it they are hard to compete with in terms on games. Transmeta should imho, focus completely on embedded systems that use their own OS and software to really shine.
and in charge of cash register maintence at a grocery store and our registers where P3-500s with 128 megs of ram running on DOS and some emulator software that let it connect into the archaic IBM register mini-computer. The funniest thing is that each register was atleast 5x more powerful than the IBM.
Now when people go outside to get away from technology and back to nature, they can pirate some mp3s at the same time.
A trend that I've noticed is that everything is multiplayer now. Great games are the ones that everything is designed and scripted out, random attacks, plots, and sucky players don't make a game great, they offer diversity and may make it interesting but a true game is one that plays like a book, unfolding a plot in front of you. I haven't seen any good multiplayer games do this yet.
Does it really shock anyone? It's like everyone expects them to get along? When was the last time you saw two competiting grocery stores run newspaper ads supporting each other. It's just the way the US business world works, you make your money at the expense of others. I'm not a Microsoft fan but jeez it's not like this sort of stuff doesn't happen in every other corporation. Bad mouthing the competition and saying how great your company is, is a tatic to try and get employees motivated, whether it works or not is questionable but the fact that Microsoft bad mouths a competing OS, or tries to force companies to use its software shouldn't surprise anyone.
How can I make money selling my amateur porn if they can see it all without my permission?
Couldn't you just setup an alias in the Windows host file that would do the exact same thing. Christ, for 3 minutes you could have an application that could do this.
I purchased a HP Xf145 notebook from Sam's Club about 1 month ago, for the price it was a great machine, 1ghz mobile amd, 20 gig hd, 512Megs of ram for $1200. Only problem is that it locked up randomly, and frequently. HP refused to acknowledge that there was a problem and I ended up returning it to Sam's Club for a full return. (15 day full return). I ended up purchasing a Toshiba Sattelite 5005-S507 that I can't be happier with. It cost me a bit more (~$1600, I bought it refurbished) and it features the Geforce4 chipset, 1.1 ghz true p3, 512 megs ram, 40 gig hd, firewire, 8x/4x/cdrw/dvd combo drive and many other features. Even though it has a full desktop processor in it I have yet to have a lockup on it and it's as stable as anything I've ever ran.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., and DALLAS (April 16, 2002) -- Ditech Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DITC) and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced that TI has acquired Ditech's Telinnovation echo-cancellation software unit for a purchase price of $26.8 million. As a result of the acquisition, TI will provide customers with complete hardware and software carrier-class platforms that combine its voice-optimized digital signal processors (DSPs) and Telogy Software(TM) products with the industry's most widely used echo-cancellation technology. As part of the agreement, Ditech secures a license to implement the Telinnovation software on its echo cancellation systems, including enhancements made by TI to the echo cancellation algorithms. The agreement also calls for joint marketing and sales efforts.
"TI is committed to providing our broadband voice-over packet, or VoP, customers with the silicon and software they need to win in this fast-growing market," said Bill Simmelink, general manager of TI's VoP Business Unit. "By combining our silicon and software platforms with Ditech's echo-cancellation software and expertise, we will be able to provide our customers with complete, high-performance carrier-class VoP solutions."
"This transaction and license agreement with TI reflects a strategic decision by Ditech to bolster and focus all of our echo-cancellation resources to win in the echo cancellation systems business, where historically Ditech has generated the vast majority of its revenues and profits," said Tim Montgomery, Ditech's president, and CEO. "With this transaction and licensing agreement with TI, we maintain the echo-cancellation software component of our product advantage and increase the funds available to develop new systems products."
Ditech's high-capacity echo-canceller software is recognized as the industry benchmark for DSP-based voice enhancement and echo cancellation. It is regularly specified as a required component of new equipment purchased by major telecommunications carriers transitioning to wireless and packet-switched architectures. Echo-cancellation software algorithms are embedded in programmable DSPs to eliminate the echo effect caused by signal reflections of the speaker's voice as it crosses a variety of voice transmission systems.
Dr. Charles Davis, Ditech's chief technology officer and one of the world's foremost experts in the field, will join TI and continue to lead the echo-cancellation software team. Prior to joining Ditech, Dr. Davis led Telinnovation Service Corporation, which Ditech acquired in February 2000. The Telinnovation team began providing echo-cancellation software in 1983 and has years of experience working with various TI DSP platforms.
The acquired unit will become part of the Broadband Communications Group within TI's semiconductor business, reporting to Mr. Simmelink. The echo-cancellation team will remain in Silicon Valley, moving into an existing TI facility in San Jose.
Conference Call
Ditech will host a conference call at 4:20 Eastern Time/1:20 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, April 16 to discuss this announcement. Ditech President Tim Montgomery and Ditech CFO Bill Tamblyn will lead the discussion. Any member of the public can listen to the conference call by calling the following number: (706) 634-5581. The conference call will also be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed by going to the Investors section of the Ditech web site: http://www.ditechcom.com. A replay of the conference call will be available via Ditech's web site or by calling the Encore replay number at (706) 645-9291. The conference ID is 3870574. The replay of this call will be available two hours after the call is completed, until 5 PM ET on April 23rd.
Texas Instruments Broadband Solutions
For OEMs developing broadband communications solutions, TI's advanced signal processing-based silicon and software platforms deliver the optimal performance, lower power consumption, and system-level integration required to rapidly deploy differentiated next-generation products for cable modems, digital subscriber line (xDSL) modems, integrated access devices (IADs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateways, carrier infrastructure, and home and office wireless networking. See www.ti.com/sc/broadband.
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About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com.
About Ditech Communications Corporation
Ditech Communications Corporation is a global telecommunications equipment supplier for voice and optical networks. Ditech's voice products are high-capacity echo cancellers that utilize advanced software and digital signal processor (DSP) technology. This unique combination of software and hardware allows Ditech to deliver Voice Quality of Service (VQoS(TM)), a robust and cost-effective solution for voice enhancement (including noise reduction) and echo cancellation. Ditech also develops and markets optical subsystems and systems communications products. Ditech's optical subsystem products include optical amplifiers, transponders and network management products that enable service providers to cost-effectively expand and extend the reach of fiber optic networks. Ditech (DITC) is listed on the Nasdaq National Market and is headquartered in Mountain View, California (web site: http://www.ditechcom.com). Ditech is also developing and marketing its Titanium optical transport system product through its subsidiary, Altamar Networks (http://www.altamar.com).
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding the transaction between Ditech and TI and other statements of their respective managements' beliefs, goals and expectations may be considered "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. Those risks and uncertainties include the risk that Ditech and TI will not realize the benefits they expect under the joint marketing agreement, that TI will not successfully integrate the Telinnovation operation into its business, and that if there is a breach of a representation or warranty of Ditech in the transaction documents then Ditech may have liability to TI. Each company's statements herein are based on its current expectations. Ditech and TI each disclaim any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this press release.
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As long as they cite the source of the article as someone else's I would think this should be perfectly legal. It's the same as writing a research paper and then giving a direct page number in the works cited page from the magazine you read it from.
Well seeing as how I work for Charter Communications in the high speed data department and assuming your rates are comporable to what we charge in Wisconsin, then your paying $30 a month for a 256kbps/128kbps line. Where as lines that offer 1.5mbit/128kbps run $49.95. I personally don't really consider 256kbps a broadband connection, ISDN could pull close to if I remember correctly. However, Wisconsin is not the mecca of the tech world so perhaps your getting a better deal than what we offer here.
We implement cable service to our customers that are not wired to directly to our plant via Microwave signals carried from the nearest headend unit beamed to a small Dish Network style dish. We are able to support all the digital services as well as our advanced services like cable internet. These systems work fairly well however weather does play a fairly large roll in the reception, snow being the worst. However, it is much more cost efficient that running fiber optic cable through rural communities that in some cases don't even have basic copper wire laid. We estimate that in order to run a line 1 mile it's about $20,000.
In order for them to be succesful they need to have time warner drop roadrunner and make it AOL high speed access. The simple fact that its possible to have time warner roadrunner without AOL reduces the value of AOL-TimeWarner. Granted, this would make some of RoadRunner's users unhappy, but if they charged a comperable rate to what RoadRunner is right now I would assume the vast majority (power users excluded) wouldn't care. And for those that hate AOL they could up the price of basic roadrunner service and give a faster connection without AOL. I work for a competitor of RoadRunner (although I live in RoadRunner subscriber area) and I personally recieve about 5-10 phone calls a day about people wanting our service so that they can use it in conjunction with AOL.
Is how useful a powerful, upgradable pc's actually are. Toss a decent video capture board in it, and some software and you got a TiVO. Toss a 802.11b wireless pci nic in and you got yourself a small little file server you can hide in your closet. Use it as a Lan Party computer. A car based mp3/gps system, etc. There is a ton of possibilites when you can shrink down the size of a normal computer into a small attractive case that you don't mind have sitting next to a tv or can stash away under something.
Passwords sure as hell don't stop intentional disclosure of information, being around other people helps to though. You don't think companies would pay serious money for user habits, addresses, and phone numbers so that they can target their marketing? Got news for you, they do and disclosure of confidential material does happen. It could happen more in an uncontrolled enviroment.
While this would probably work, I know at my job we put a high price on the security of our information. (I.E. You can bring a personal notebook with you, but if you hook it up to the internal network you'll have the IT department on your ass.) If this involves customer accounts I would be very concerned that someone would be devulging personal information to outside sources as there is no way to truley monitor activity like this without a supervisor occasionally walking through, or other employees around to report unusual behavior. And what about those friendly children that might be more than happy to go play with Mom or Dad's company notebook and lose my resevations or payments. I'd feel better as a consumer knowing that my account was handled in an office enviroment rather than while the customer service rep is on the can.
is if it comes with a modification to allow all those consoles to be viewed via a computer monitor or even better if you could fit a flexATX or one of those micro mainboards and put in a card with a video in line so you can play multiple games in a window via an overlay.
Children have the most curiosity, and the littlest fear. They will try things that people who have experienced negative results previously may not. For example: my 2 year old son can play Halo better than I can, not because I'm bad at video games but because I cannot adapt to the controls and controller the way he can. I'm still stuck in the quake mouse + keyboard point of mind.